Dr. YAN Xuetong is university distinguished professor of Tsinghua University and foreign member of Russia Academy of Science. He is serving as Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University and Secretary General of the World Peace Forum. He obtained Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley in 1992 and was named as one of world's Top 100 public intellectuals by the American journal Foreign Policy in 2008. He has been the only Chinese political scientist listed in Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier during 2014-2020. Some of his books have been translated in to English, Japanese, Korean, Farsi and Albanian.